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Home     Cross-impact balance analysis     Approach     CIB algorithm     Project references     Publications     Guidelines     ScenarioWizard     Contact     ZIRN	The significance of Germany as a site for power plant construction against the background of an increasing internationalization of innovation processes The project was funded by the Volkswagen-Foundation . It took examples of technologies from the power plant sector to illustrate the interactions between the innovation activities in progress in various countries, giving special consideration to their innovation systems. A major priority was the analysis of activities undertaken by multinational enterprises (MNE). Cross-impact analysis was used for the analysis of the interdependence of the innovation system environment and the MNE activities concerning coal power plant technologies in Germany and China. The project was worked in cooperation with the Research Centre Juelich (FZ Juelich), Programme Group Systems Analysis and Technology Evaluation (STE) and the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Research Department Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental management. A panel consisting of innovation experts, industry experts, and China experts participated in a Delphi survey on the factors influencing MNE strategies in the fields politics, industry characteristics, R&D, locational conditions, and MNE characteristics. The experts assessed the relative importance of the factors and discussed their interdependence in three workshops. Subsequently the expert judgements were be analyzed using the CIB method and a scenario describing the R&D internationalization till 2020/25 was developed. Duration of the project: August 2007 - June 2009 Project staff ZIRN: Dr. Gerhard Fuchs Sandra Wassermann Dr. Wolfgang Weimer-Jehle >> Homepage of the Volkswagen Foundation programme "Innovation Processes in Economy and Society" Reports: ...Workpackage "Lead Market Analysis" (ZEW, in English) ...Workpackage "Globalization, MNE and innovation" (FZ Jülich/ZIRN, in German) ...Workpackage "Scenario development using CIB" (ZIRN, in German)	News The Helmholtz Alliance "ENERGY-TRANS" studies the interplay between technological and societal aspects of the energy transition in Germany. ZIRN develops societal scenarios using the CIB method... More News In a project dealing with the conditions of sustainable heat consumption the interdependence of structural conditions, actor behaviour and consumer behaviour is analysed using the CIB method... More News A project of the Stuttgart Cluster of Excellence "SimTech" uses CIB as a method to integrate political, social and economical contexts into environmental simulations... More News In a project about obesity prevention the obesity risks of socially disadvantaged children and adolescents will be analysed using the CIB method... More News The German-Peruvian project LiWa aims at strategies to cope with the threats of climate change to the water supply of Lima. The project's integrative scenarios are developed using the CIB method... More News Version 3.42 of the free CIB software ScenarioWizard Basic is available now... More Archive The archive offers a compilation of older CIB notes on projects and publications... More